i want to start learning code....

[infinity]

anyone have any suggestions on where to start?

[morea]

www.w3schools.com

[Obsidian86]

Or try Lynda.com

[infinity]

thanks.

this may be a stupid question, but is html/css an actual software app?

[Obsidian86]

No, its more like a language

[infinity]

ok thats what I thought.

ill have to look more into those sites. lynda looks to be an "at your own pace" learning thing? that could be useful for me.

I'm working on learning all this in between getting my associates/bachelors for graphic design, and working. I could go back and get in a web design course and minor in web design. something I may do later on down the road. but right now this is the way ill go.

[kemingMatters]

Originally Posted by Obsidian86

No, its more like a language

I like to think of them as adjectives; they describe the structure (HTML) and what it looks like (CSS).

[infinity]

So from what i understand so far, HTML is the words and such that we read on the page? and CSS is the design layout part?

[<b>]

Originally Posted by infinity

So from what i understand so far, HTML is the words and such that we read on the page? and CSS is the design layout part?

No, the words are content — they're neither HTML nor CSS.

HTML is the code that provides the structure for the document. HTML specifies what is a paragraph and what is a headline or what is a pullout quote. It tells the user agent (the browser) what is the main copy and what's a footnote and what's a sidebar. It differentiates between things like tables and graphics and photos.

CSS is the code that specifies how those structural elements will be displayed. It specifies, for example, what typeface will be used in the paragraphs or what size the headlines will be. It gives the designer the ability to put, say, a colored background and a rule around that sidebar or add extra space around the text inside the box.

In other words, HTML defines and categorizes the elements on a web page. CSS is then used to define what those elements should look like.

[Cosmo]

This is a pretty good book. Granted, it jumps into HTML5 and doesn't really do much with the previous versions, but it's a good book to learn from. It's what we use at school in our beginning web design classes.